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The following events occurred in March 1912: ==March 1, 1912 (Friday)== *Albert Berry became the first person to make a parachute jump from an airplane in flight, leaping from above the Jefferson Barracks near St. Louis, Missouri, after being taken aloft by pilot Tony Jannus.〔("Drops from Biplane with a Parachute" ), ''New York Times'', March 2, 1912〕 *The British coal miners' strike, that had started earlier in the week at one company in Derbyshire, continued to spread across the United Kingdom, with one million workers walking off the job until a fair minimum wage could be guaranteed them.〔"1,000,000 British Miners Strike", ''New York Times'', March 2, 1912〕 *Emmeline Pankhurst was among 148 suffragettes who were arrested in London, after they began breaking windows in order to attract attention. At 6:00 in the evening, the women, marching in favor of their right to vote, brought out rocks they had been carrying, and attacked storefronts in Westminster. "Never since plate glass was invented has there been such a smashing and shattering of it as was witnessed this evening when the suffragettes went out on a window-breaking raid in the West End of London," the ''New York Times'' wrote the next day. Attacks took place on famous streets such as the Strand, Haymarket, Piccadilly, Bond Street, Oxford Street and Regent Street, and even at Prime Minister Asquith's residence at 10 Downing Street.;〔"Suffragists Smash London Shop Fronts", ''New York Times'', March 2, 1912, p1〕 Mrs. Pankhurst sentenced to two months in jail, along with Mabel Tuke and Christabel Marshall.〔"Two Months in Jail for Suffragettes", ''New York Times'', March 3, 1912〕 *Hungarian composer Béla Bartók first heard Bulgarian folk music during a visit to the Austro-Hungarian principality of Transylvania, now part of Romania, where he had been collecting Romanian folk music.〔Benjamin Suchoff, ''Béla Bartók: A Celebration'' (Scarecrow Press, 2004) p140〕 *Born: Boris Chertok, Russian rocket designer, in Łódź, Russian Empire (now Poland (d. 2011) *Died: George Grossmith, 65, English actor and comic writer; and Pyotr Lebedev, 46, Russian physicist who was the first to measure the pressure caused by light; and Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, 72, former Prime Minister of Denmark in 1909. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「March 1912」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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